Insights

Critical reflections on architecture and design, from podcasts to publishing, reports to recaps.

'Designing Hope: Investing in the Young Climate Generation', a special NYC Climate Week gathering presented by The World Around and Atelier Jolie, with the Financial Times as media partner.

"Most designers don't fully appreciate how powerful they are"

Architecture
Community
Design
Climate Action
Janet Dete & Damaris Kuria’s Queening Afrika: A collection and processing system that turns discarded synthetic hair into fiber for handbags and home goods. Photo Courtesy of Janet Dete & Damaris Kuria.

Meet Tomorrow, Young Climate Prize Cohort 03

Indigenous Knowledge
Conservation
Architecture
Circularity
Community
Design
Materials
Climate Action
Ecology
Dayana Blanco and Team Uru Uru. Photo by The World Around.

“If I want to save a lake, it’s not something I can do alone”

Indigenous Knowledge
Activism
Community
Climate Action
“The Young Climate Prize taught me you can always be an exception”

“The Young Climate Prize taught me you can always be an exception”

Activism
Community
Future
Technology
Climate Action
More Favela, Less Trash graphic. A collage of the various initiatives Pedro Arlès is leading in Aglomerado da Serra, overlaid with a cycle of four orange arrows.

“When working in a favela, there are many demands that we need to address”

Architecture
Activism
Young Climate Prize
Community
INTRODUCING OUR DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI SERIES WITH PIN-UP

INTRODUCING OUR DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI SERIES WITH PIN-UP

Architecture
Andrés Jaque, Andrew Heid, Bjarke Ingels and Tei Carpenter

DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI: “TURN NEW YORK INTO AN OCEANIC CITY”

Architecture
Water
Ecology
Infrastructure
Ada Tolla, Adam Rolston, Amale Andraos and Florian Idenburg

DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI: “DO NOT LEAVE HOUSING IN THE HANDS OF DEVELOPERS”

Architecture
Housing
Community
Infrastructure
Pernilla Ohrstedt, Amina Blacksher, Mimi Hoang and Susan Wines

DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI: “THE CITY IS OUR LIVING ROOM”

Architecture
Community
Infrastructure
Landscape
Jaffer Kolb, Nahyun Hwang, Michael Abel, Andrea Chiney and Nile Greenberg

DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI: “NEW YORK IS BUILT AS A LABORATORY FOR ARCHITECTURE”

Architecture
Urbanism
Community
Social Change
Mariam Issoufou, Mabel Wilson, V. Mitch McEwen, Ivi Diamantopoulou, Noam Dvir, and James Wines

DEAR MAYOR MAMDANI: “ARCHITECTURE IS ONE OF THE MOST POLITICAL FIELDS”

Activism
Architecture
Policy
Community
Leila Borzog

Deputy Mayor promises to “build more, faster, across New York City”

Housing
Urbanism
Policy
Antique brickwork reconnecting the heritage site with the caravanserai complex.

Restoration and Renewal in Bukhara

Architecture
Conservation
Heritage
Streets of Kochi Muziris Biennale, KMB 2025-26

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025: For The Time Being

Art
Vernacular
Social Change
Craftsmen during the work of one of NORTH’s project

“Without vernacular thinking, architecture risks losing its moral responsibility”

Indigenous Knowledge
Architecture
Community
Research
Vernacular
Douglas Cardinal & Hans Ulrich Obrist Discuss Architecture as Ritual

Douglas Cardinal & Hans Ulrich Obrist Discuss Architecture as Ritual

Architecture
Indigenous Knowledge
Heritage
Yasmeen Lari

“Our entire understanding of the role of the architect must change” says Yasmeen Lari

Activism
Architecture
Social Justice
“Designers are expanding our capacity to bring about transformation”

“Designers are expanding our capacity to bring about transformation”

Architecture
Design
Community
“Design Earth responds to the cultural crisis of climate change”

“Design Earth responds to the cultural crisis of climate change”

Storytelling
Climate Action
Research

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